• In connection with the exhibit, “A Railroad Runs Through It,” the Livingston Depot will host a variety of classes instructed by the featured artists. paper and paint workshop with Malou Flato will be 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. It is for adults years 15 and older. The fee is $30. There will be a poetry workshop with Marc BeaudinSaturday, Aug. 26 . Youth session is open to ages 12 – 17. It goes from 10:00 am to noon, for a tuition of $10. An adult session for ages 18 and up will be from 2 to 4 p. m for a tuition of $20.

Robert S. “Bob” Ricci, 75, of Livingston passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, August 7th, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Livingston followed by a reception at the church. Graveside committal and burial will follow the reception at Calvary Cemetery.

The staff awoke last Saturday morning to learn that someone had broken into the newspaper and set the paper’s press on fire. Production manager Al Bublitz and the newspaper’s press crew worked tirelessly — with assistance from Livingston electricians and a press repair expert who drove to Livingston all the way from Oklahoma — to get the paper’s baby blue Goss Community press back in action.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Mexican man who says he was raped in 2013 while detained by U.S. immigration officials will likely be in their custody again for at least three months while a court decides whether he should be deported.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the immediate deportation of 44-year-old Audemio Orozco-Ramirez, after he was arrested in Billings, Montana, on Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. human rights investigators warned Friday of ethnic cleansing in central Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children, in violence with "no good guys and bad guys."

The investigators based their new report on interviews in June of 96 people who fled Congo's Kasai provinces into neighboring Angola over the three previous months. It decried alleged violence involving a recently formed militia, Bana Mura, backed by Congolese security officials.

BOZEMAN (AP) — Yellowstone National Park has decided to convert part of its bison trap into a temporary brucellosis quarantine facility.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports park officials announced Thursday that they would bring a portion of the space up to federal and state standards to open a facility where animals could be certified as free of brucellosis, a disease that causes animals to abort calves.